INSPIRATION ROOMS:
1. Victoria & Michael's Sunny Art-Filled Home in DC
2. The Pineapple Housewife's Happy Home
3. Eli & Jessica's Comforting Cambridge Condo
4. Country French Magazine via Maison Decor
5. Julia & Zeus's California Bungalow with an Architectural Update
PAINT COLORS TO GET THIS LOOK:
1. Pratt & Lambert Queen's Lace 14-2
2. Farrow & Ball Hound Lemon No. 2
3. Behr Pale Daffodil 370A-2
4. Pittsburgh Paints Banana Pudding 112-2
5. Dulux Lunar Falls
6. Sherwin Williams Glisten Yellow SW 6912
7. Valspar Enlightenment 3003-2C
8. Benjamin Moore Light Yellow 2022-60
9. YOLO Colorhouse Air. 04
10. Mythic Sun Ray 087-2
(Images: as linked above)
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I love a pale yellow in a dining room. In my house we have more of a dining nook than a dedicated room, and we painted the area in Behr Dried Plantain. It really defined the area, and gave us a nice warm feel. You can how we changed it from a cool blue to a pale yellow here: http://www.jjmodern.com/2012/06/21/dining-room-color/
My dining room is yellow ... I used "Butter Up" from Sherwin Williams and have shiny white bead board below the chair rail. I hung the chair rail a little higher than normal also. I like it a lot!
I have two gallons of pale yellow paint leftover from a project. Anyone know how I could donate it? I'd hate to toss such a large amount!
Our dining room and hallways are all Devine paint's Butter. It is a fabulous color.
It's important for people to understand that just about any yellow--no matter how pale--will look brighter, more saturated and make everything in the room seem to glow when you first paint the room. You might even think, "What have I done!?" Before you repaint, or stop in the middle of painting the room, live with it for 2-4 weeks. You'll be amazed at how right it feels once the initial reaction wears off.
For me, yellow is better in the kitchen's breakfast nook -- sunny, warm, optimistic, a nice way to start the day. (I have Coronado's "Autumn Valley" in my kitchen/breakfast nook.) My standard for a formal dining room is that I want it to look elegant at night, and these yellows are more flattered by natural daylight than by chandeliers or candles. I'm a throwback in that I still like individual rooms, not an open plan, and I want the dedicated dining room to be like a rich jewel box, with a deep color that will recede into the background but still register as a color even in dim light. (I used Behr's "Tucson Teal" below the chair rail in my dining room -- personable but not too bright during the daytime, imperial at night without being as predictable as a royal blue, burgundy or hunter green.)
The default for showing rooms on AT is to photograph them with lots of sunlight, but I'd love to see more atmospheric shots of dining rooms at night -- you know, the time when they're being put to their ideal use.